Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi: Difference between revisions

| succession  = [[Mansoor Ali Khan]]

| birth_name  = Mohammad Mansoor Ali Khan Siddiqui Pataudi

| birth_place  = [[Bhopal|Bhopal City]], [[Bhopal State]], [[British Raj|British India]]

| death_place  = [[Central Delhi]], [[Delhi]], India

Mansur Ali Khan was the son of [[Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi]], the last ruler of the [[princely state]] of [[Pataudi State|Pataudi]] during the [[British Raj]].   After the death of his father in 1952, Pataudi succeeded him in receiving a [[Privy purse in India|privy purse]], certain privileges, and the use of the title "Nawab of Pataudi" under terms accepted earlier when princely states were [[political integration of India|absorbed]] into independent India.<ref name=ramusack-pol-integration>{{cite book |last=Ramusack |first=Barbara N. |authorlink=Barbara Ramusack |title=The Indian princes and their states |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kz1-mtazYqEC&pg=PA273 |year=2004 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-26727-4 |page=273 |quote=The crucial document was the Instrument of Accession by which rulers ceded to the legislatures of India or Pakistan control over defence, external affairs, and communications. In return for these concessions, the princes were to be guaranteed a privy purse in perpetuity and certain financial and symbolic privileges such as exemption from customs duties, the use of their titles, the right to fly their state flags on their cars, and to have police protection. ... By December 1947 Patel began to pressure the princes into signing Merger Agreements that integrated their states into adjacent British Indian provinces, soon to be called states or new units of erstwhile princely states, most notably Rajasthan, Patiala and East Punjab States Union, and Matsya Union (Alwar, Bharatpur, Dholpur and Karaulli).}}</ref> However, all were ended in 1971 by the [[Privy Purse in India#Abolition|26th Amendment to the Constitution of India]].<ref>{{Citation |url=https://www.india.gov.in/my-government/constitution-india/amendments/constitution-india-twenty-sixth-amendment-act-1971 |title=The Constitution (26 Amendment) Act, 1971 |publisher=Government of India |work=indiacode.nic.in |year=1971|access-date=9 November 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Ramusack |first=Barbara N.|author-link=Barbara Ramusack |title=The Indian princes and their states |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kz1-mtazYqEC&pg=PA278 |year=2004 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-26727-4 |page=278 |quote=Through a constitutional amendment passed in 1971, Indira Gandhi stripped the princes of the '''titles''', privy purses and regal privileges which her father's government had granted.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Schmidt |first=Karl J. |title=An atlas and survey of South Asian history |url=https://archive.org/details/atlassurveyofsou0000schm|url-access=registration |year=1995 |publisher=M.E. Sharpe |isbn=978-1-56324-334-9 |page=[https://archive.org/details/atlassurveyofsou0000schm/page/78 78] |quote=Although the Indian states were alternately requested or forced into union with either India or Pakistan, the real death of princely India came when the Twenty-sixth Amendment Act (1971) abolished the princes' '''titles''', privileges, and privy purses.}}</ref>

Mansoor was in a steady relationship with [[Simi Garewal]]. Garewal admitted in an email interview that she was dating Pataudi and that he came to visit her on the sets of ''[[Teen Devian]]'', in Avijit Ghosh's book, ''40 Retakes: Bollywood Classics You May Have Missed''.{{citation needed|date=December 2021}} He broke up with her after he met [[Sharmila Tagore]], whom he married on 27 December 1968.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/news/soha-ali-khan-shares-an-endearing-picture-of-parents-sharmila-tagore-and-mansoor-ali-khan-pataudi-on-their-wedding-anniversary/articleshow/79989524.cms |title=Soha Ali Khan shares an endearing picture of parents, Sharmila Tagore and Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi on their wedding anniversary - Times of India|website=[[The Times of India]] }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/news/from-toi-archives-tiger-pataudis-untold-tale/articleshow/10089930.cms |title=Tiger Pataudis untold tale |newspaper=The Times of India}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/movies/bollywood/story/rendezvous-simi-garewal-mansoor-ali-khan-pataudi-sharmila-tagore-142497-2011-10-03 |title=Tiger Pataudi's romance with Sharmila to air on Rendezvous with Simi Garewal in his memory.}}</ref> They had three children: [[Saif Ali Khan]] (b. 1970), a Bollywood actor, [[Saba Ali Khan]] (b. 1976),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rediff.com/movies/2007/aug/28saif.htm |title=To Saif with love: Soha & Saba |work=rediff.com}}</ref> a jewellery designer, and [[Soha Ali Khan]] (b. 1978), a Bollywood actress and TV personality. The actress [[Kareena Kapoor Khan]] is his daughter-in-law, and the actress [[Sara Ali Khan]] is his granddaughter. Actor [[Kunal Khemu]] is his son-in-law.

Pataudi was arrested in October 2005 over the poaching of a [[blackbuck]] and two hares, but was released on bail.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.rediff.com/news/2005/jun/06pat.htm |title=Pataudi booked under Wildlife Act: Police |website=rediff.com|access-date=9 March 2018}}</ref> The case went on for nine years, and in January 2015, four years after his death, six people were convicted.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/6-convicted-in-Pataudi-blackbuck-poaching-case/articleshow/46073719.cms |title=6 convicted in Pataudi blackbuck poaching case |work=The Times of India|access-date=9 March 2018}}</ref> This case is unrelated to the other [[Salman Khan#Blackbuck hunting and Arms Act violations cases|blackbuck poaching case of Salman Khan]] that his son Saif Ali Khan Pataudi was involved in.